Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal autopsies in the nationally representative Indian Million Death Study from 2001 to 2014, and conducted a systematic literature...

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Main Authors: Wilson Suraweera, David Warrell, Romulus Whitaker, Geetha Menon, Rashmi Rodrigues, Sze Hang Fu, Rehana Begum, Prabha Sati, Kapila Piyasena, Mehak Bhatia, Patrick Brown, Prabhat Jha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-07-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
snakebite
antivenom envenomation snake
mortality risk incidence
India
million death study
case fatality
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/54076

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